Controversial Anti-Abortion Fliers Spark Campus Outrage

Black Students At Princeton Theological Seminary Want Answers

March 21, 2011 11:58 PM

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PRINCETON, N.J. (CBS 2) – It has become the talk among African American students at the prestigious Princeton Theological Seminary — racially charged fliers and postings. All of it is apparently anti-abortion literature.

Among the fliers was one that displayed a noose and another with the words “in the new klan lynching is for amateurs.”

“I was shocked and appalled that someone would place something like that up at this particular institution,” seminary student Maurice Stinnett told CBS 2′s Derricke Dennis.

“There was a lot of devastation for me, psychological damage, injury, because I saw this as social bullying,” student Shirley Thomas said.

Student leaders at the seminary, which neighbors Princeton University but is not directly affiliated, said the fliers first appeared on campus last November then reappeared in February for Black History Month.

The fliers originate from various sources, pointing out the number of African American deaths by abortion.

Student Katherine Timpte called the fliers “appalling and tragic and upsetting at all levels.”

Another student, Alex Turpin, said he thought whoever was distributing the literature had a “right to voice their opinions,” adding “personally, I wouldn’t have done it in that way.”

A statement from the seminary said it “does not tolerate racial discrimination” and “has policies that both protect freedom of speech and preclude racial harassment of any kind.”

On Wednesday, students at the seminary will hold a forum to discuss the images.

“People need to understand that racism is not dead,” Thomas said.

SOUND-OFF: What do you think about this campus controversy? Let us know in the comments section…

Controversial Anti Abortion Fliers Spark Campus Outrage

David Goldstein

The abortion numbers don’t lie…why are Blacks upset?
Moral Truth

Why is everyone overreacting and crying racism over this article?

There are some African American girls that get pregnant as young as 13 and thats the moral truth.

Ronald Lemley

The reason that they are “crying racism” over it is simply because the flyer rudely singles out black people which is, in fact, racism or , at the very least, extreme racial insensitivity, even if you don’t acknowledge that fact. This would become obvious to you if you took out the black or African American reference and substituted any other racial or cultural group.
In the case of African Americans, they have a definate reason to be concerned about racial profiling even if the intentions are good.

katkal

Ronald Lemley ,
You are such a dumb a**!!!!! YES this IS to educate the BLACK race..it is a marketing idea that popped in someones head to get attention- and that it did!!!
This advert wanted to target BLACK people and wanted media attention mission accomplished!

The Black Girl

So are you saying white girls at 13 don’t get pregnant? What is your moral truth point?

MIGHTYMOUSE

74 MILLION ,U.S. ALONE ——CHILDREN KILLED IN THE SAFEST PLACE IN THE WORLD—–THE MOTHERS WOMB. WE HAVE ABORTED OUR SELVESOUT OF AN ARMY—-ETC—-TAXES—-ETC.THE ABYSS ONLY GETS DEEPER EVERYDAY.———-REMBER GODS WORDS—–REVENGE IS MINE——-GODS CHILDREN SCREAM OUT FROM HEAVEN .————————————————ABORTION IS MURDER——————–NO MATTER WHAT THE LAW SAYS————.

Ronald Lemley

Cool it Mighty Mouse, you’re scairing the straights!
jennifer

Mighty Mouse… learn how to spell before you preach.
AMcCaffrey

“Out of an army” – you mean we should have let these children be born just to send them off to die in a war? That’s the problem with you anti-abortionists – you only care about these children BEFORE they are born.

Morgan S.

I think it is exactly this – that it is one of the main reasons the forced pregnancy folks are so vehemently militant. More babies born into poor working class families or worse will then grow up and come to view the military as a means of escape from poverty. But it won’t be. They will grow up to become the cannon fodder – the meat bags – for the wars against other countries whose resources American wants. The promise of upward mobility through military service is, and has been, hollow for over 30 years.

alura

crackhead
alura

Oh and I mean that in a nice way…mighty mouse was a cocaine sniffing mouse…that was the source of his “power”…research it. It wasn’t just snuff…

I would rather see someone have an abortion than to give birth to a child who would be subject to abuse of many sorts, poverty, and parents disinterested in raising a child….and don’t whine about adoption, there are still not enough adoptive parents for all the kids in foster care.
I would recommend getting a job with Child Protective Services for a while…it will certainly open your eyes-if that’s possible.

jennifer

<— Agrees with Alura
Morgan S.

Also agreeing with Alura
Brandy M Miller

Speaking as a survivor of abuse, I would rather be alive. Thanks for your concern. Abuse, I can get over and grow from; death – not so much. I survived poverty, too, and I must say it has made me a stronger person for going through it. Same for my 3 sisters and my brother. We are all, btw, healthy and productive members of society today – but if people like you were put in charge of the decision making, we wouldn’t be.

Diane

There is no place in the Bible that condemns abortion. In fact, I have been told by a Jewish friend that Jews believe the sould enters the baby as it is being born. Why aren’t people more worried about the children that are living and their welfare?

Sarah

Your reference to the Bible and your Jewish friend don’t coincide. Ask your Jewish friend what they think of the Bible…ignorance like that overshadows your whole statment.

Glenn

Some people have way too much time on their hands.
Muhammad Rahman Raza

I think that we should have a policy for all 7 billion people to have one kid per person if the person can show that he/she is fininancially and knowlwdgewise responsible to raise a kid. I watched Judge Judy and other court TV shows, it is shame to see so many cases of the girls having the kids and not having a responsible father to raise them so one day they are a responsible citizen. I remember in Karachi, Pakistan during summer time sparrows used to make their nest in my room. After few months little baby birds most of the time each sparrow pair have 2 eggs then babies till the babies are big enough to fly on their own parents used to feed them but as long as the little babies are big enough to fly parents used to kick them out from the nest. We should learn from these birds, we have 7 billion people in international community and most of the poor countries have almost 50% unemployment for youths.

alura

I LOVE Judge Judy!! I agree to the limiting children thing but even with that, if a parent has no moral compass, you still may end up with a really messed up kid who grows up to be a messed up adult…As for other countries, without good government you cannot have responsible citizens. Sadly some countries are already dictatorial or run by royalty…and they all suck at addressing the needs and wants of their people…and so many other countries’ leaders version of democracy is so askew that they have pseudo democracy…
Anyhow I agree tho with limiting people to one child…but I doubt 3rd world nations would bother. And other nations would balk about it…

mike

hey Jack, wait a minute, don’t tell Shirely that she could have been aborted at birth, then she wouldn’t have to worry about it!!
Brenda Lee

“There was a lot of devastation for me, psychological damage, injury, because I saw this as social bullying,” student Shirley Thomas said.<<< Really? Psychological damage thats a bit much isnt it? They are words and as far as I know they can not harm you.

jennifer

Agreed

Ronald Lemley

Mike-
And then…you are saying that the conservatives want there to be more black babies??
One would not think so from the way that racial politics are handled in the conservative community.
These leaflets are just another blatant example of the racial insensivity of the conservatives.

WFP

Ronald, the people who are calling these posters racist are missing the point of the posters. These posters are pointing to the fact that the abortion rate among African Americans is the highest of any ethnic/racial group in the US. It is suggesting that abortion providers are more likely to encourage abortions for Black women than for any other group, rather than suggest or seek alternatives (such as adoption). Abortion providers have already taken the position that a fetus is not a human being. They are therefore more likely to counsel a woman mired in poverty, or an endangered teenager, to have an abortion rather than bring a child into a life of poverty and potential misery. Statistically, such women would be disproportionately African American. These posters are, in effect, suggesting that the real racists are the abortion providers and that they are in effect committing genocide since the direct outcome of their counsel is the reduction of births among Black women.

And I wish you would stop calling opposition to abortion a “conservative” position. Opposition to abortion is neither a conservative nor a religious position; you will find many self-described liberals and agnostics/atheists who oppose abortion. Nor is support for abortion rights necessarily a “feminist” position: google “feminists for life”.

I maintain that support for abortion rights is NOT a liberal position, but rather the most illiberal position one can take. In my understanding of the word, a liberal is supposed to side with the weak and defenseless.What is more weak and defenseless that the child in the womb? When there is doubt, a liberal is supposed to give the benefit of the doubt. Since the whole abortion issue depends on whether a fetus is a human being, the fact that one side says it is and the other begins with the assumption that it isn’t, that means there is doubt. So the true liberal would err on the side of caution and assume until decisively proven otherwise, that the fetus is a person.

A true liberal, in other words, would oppose killing of any kind–including war, abortion, and capital punishment.

jennifer

You would be incorrect in your assumption WFP. By law, these places can not convince anyone who walks in their clinic to have an abortion over adoption. They simply give them pamphlets on abortion and the alternatives (adoption by the way) and let them make the decisions on their own. They don’t say “Oh, well you came here requesting information on abortion, so we are going to haul you in a back room right now and take care of your fetus that is not yet a human being”… It is your misconceptions of what these clinics provide that is comical. They do not converse with a possible patient about their choices and what they “should do” and most certainly are not more inclined to indicate that someone should get an abortion simply because they see a person of color or poverty come in the office. That is simply laughable. Pro life or pro choice, you should still learn all the facts on both sides before “casting stones” on the wrong facts. Whatever your position is, I respect you for it… just don’t agree with your sources.
katkal

Well said..finally someone with a real brain here! There should NO longer ever be a need for sucking out a baby- having someone make sure all the “parts” came out..and telling some “lady” all done go home.. ( I know medical background as a midwife) There are now drugs like the morning after pill that will not allow implantation and so we should never ever need to hear the word ABORTION again!
And to those of you who support planned parenthood..I went into PP at 16 years old- a virgin before the 1 time I got pregnant. They told me ( I was 4 MONTHS along) that all “it” was , was a blob of tissue, and they would just suck it out of me- no problems and no one would know, they gave me a room and a gown, I was freaked out so they also gave me something to calm down- Then..guess it was a God thing- I don’t know but I felt a jump in my belly..and thankfully I got up, got dressed and left the room. I now have a beautiful daughter- who has an awesome husband, amazing kids and a wonderful home..To think she could have wound up in the bottom of a glass jar for someone to have to make sure all her parts were there!!!!!!!!! No one ever told me that abortion KILLED- and I thank God every day that something made me get up and RUN..I would have killed myself if I found out that I MURDERED my baby and not just “got rid of a blob of tissue”
WFP

Good morning Jennifer. I just saw your comments. Sadly, there is nothing “comical” or “laughable” about my “assumptions” because they are not assumptions. There is ample evidence–in the form of anecdotal accounts, legal cases reported in the media, and research-based studies–to bear out my point regarding what sort of information abortion counselors deliver and how they deliver it.

Although the requirements differ from state to state, abortion providers are required by law to provide information regarding abortion and its alternatives. The job of the counselor is to deliver that information and to answer any and all questions. That is why they are called counselors; they counsel, which means to explain, clarify, and offer advise. Planned Parenthood and other abortion-providing organizations offer counseling but resist and challenge (in court) the legal requirements to provide information regarding the negative aspects of abortion and possible alternatives. That part of the mandated information is provided unwillingly and often perfunctorily.

Counselors, like everyone else, are human beings, and their personal beliefs affect how and to what degree they deliver the information they are charged with. I have not suggested here that they try to “convince” women to have abortions–that is your word–but their beliefs do color the way in which they counsel, how they present information and how much they provide. In a related example, HIV prevention counselors are required to present information on sexual abstinence as a method of preventing HIV infection. For many who don’t see abstinence as a practical option that means a simple one-sentence statement to the effect that abstinence is the only 100% effective preventive measure. The rest of the lecture then focuses on such things as condom choice and usage.

The fact that these people are crisis pregnancy counselors implies that they have already come to terms with abortion and see it as the lesser of two evils. They are, therefore, more likely to downplay any negatives and, often indirectly, emphasize the positive outcome of termination. What limited studies there are of abortion in the African American community seem to bear this point out: faced with the choice of a woman bringing a child into a world of dire poverty and limited options, many counselors would be tempted to downplay the negative and help a woman come to a positive attitude towards a choice for abortion.

I am not trying to demonize counselors here, as you are suggesting, but I am saying that they too are human and that the information they provide is often shaped by their biases. Sadly, the perception in the end is that, faced with a life of poverty and probably deprivation, the conclusion is that this (often Black) life would be better off if it did not come into the world.

Regards

time out

Just connect the DOTS. The facts are the facts. I believe that the black population in this country deserves the same benefits and education as every other race. But if they keep destroying their own race and refuse to take advantage of free education they are leading themselves back into the path of economic slavery. Taxpayer dollars have failed ti stem the tide. Equal opportunity has failed to stem the tide. The Black population is destroying itself through violence, drugs, lack of moral standards, and hence abortion. The blame is within themselves, just as it would be with any other race. Equal opportunity should have been enough.
Ronald Lemley

Actually, Ryan is correct here.I was a little off base in my assumption that everyone who is against abortion is also pro-war.Where would I have gotten such a far off notion?
Maybe I was falsely extrapolating the fact that nearly all conservatives(which you may not consider yourself)are pro-war and are also anti-abortion and anti-school funding.
You are quite correct.Only 99.999% of all conservatives follow this predictable pattern, the rest of you may certainly be….liberals or moderates except on this one issue.From the comments, I find this completely unlikely, but you may be right.
My supposition here is that some people, including myself are generally against abortion,except perhaps in the case of rape.I may be different from most of you in recognising the inherent danger in illegal abortions and also in my support of the services which would sustain or help raise those kids once they are born.Why encourage people to have them and then vote down all school bonds as Republicans have done in lock step for decasdes?
And-why put your support behind war that kill mothers and children?
If you don’t then that’s commendable, but I don’t think it makes you a liberal or even a non-conservative.You’re certainly against a woman’s right to choose what she does to her own body aren’t you?
The more important issue that has not been touched by anyone in this thread, is the ugly exploitive racial angle of the campaign which indeed used race as a way of broadcasting the issue in a very distasteful and insensative way., which seems, excuse me, so typically conservative not to care about the feelings of minorities even to the point of violating their constitutional rights.
It also doesn’t adress the fact that making a law against abortion does nothing to prevent women from the age old practice of back alley abortions and their ugly track record for infection and death.
claris

CLARITY HAPPENS and Truth hurts, Please merely listen to Malcolm X he stated clearly the The Masters would use the house slaves to keep the pease with the field hands. This is no different than that. The Elite rised up certain blacks for just that reason, to keep the rest of the black population from ever threatening the true powers. So the truth is our Government is so very corrupted that it turns the Truth into Lies and places most of these clinics in all black areas. Just look it up, it’s all there. over 55 million blacks were never born and in some areas the abortion rate was 7 to 1, blacks aborting 7 to 1 against all other races. Tell me is that not a bullseye. CLARITY HAPPENS and the truth is out there all in print and in vid. Just see what the founder of plan parenthood stated clearly about blacks. Government paid privately owned clinics, Governement paid Private Prison system, Government paid PRIVATE HOMELAND SECURITY. CLARITY HAPPENS and the TRUTH HURTS but is hurts the power bases set up to keep us all down as a human race, forever divided, and in that division they conquer all the races, turn a REPUBLIC into a DEMOCRACY and now into a FASCISTIC TOTALITARIAN STATE, NOT A SOVEREIGN COUNTRY. AWAKEN
Charles

Funny, I can’t watch a Knicks, Rangers, or Yankees game without seeing a gruesome and unsettling anti-smoking commercial meant to disturb and upset the public into changing their behavior. These graphic commercials are paid for with taxpayer money ostensibly to save lives and to protect the public from their own destructive tendencies. When a private organization uses their own money to similarly discourage the wanton destruction of life, however, the liberals become apoplectic about it. I don’t see how educating people about the evils of abortion is any different from educating them about the evils of smoking. The only difference is that smoking only kills sometimes, whereas abortion kills 100% of the time.

Ronald Lemley

But..Charles: Does that particular anti-smoking advert also target a specific race and exploiit their denegration and slavery?
My guess would be that they do not.

My2cents

This could very well just be a “coincidence” that the flyers were distributed during black history month. The story doesn’t take that into consideration. As far as abortions in African Americans being higher then any other major ethnicity in the U.S. sounds to me like someone who knows their facts. The adds aren’t far off from the “Truth anti-smoking adds”. I agree w/ freedom of speech 100%. BUT, people should at least make attempts to be considerate about the words they choose to say imo Nicotine is blind, it doesn’t target any specific race, It’ll eventually kill anyone who smokes long enough. And sorry Ronald, I’m failing to see where these “flyers” exploited anything about slavery.

TL;DR- life is short, enjoy what you make of it. . And if you don’t like a particular commercial, you have the right to turn it off. If you don’t like a particular flyer, tear it down. If you don’t like what someone has to say, you have the right to “tune them out and walk away” It takes no more then 1/2 a second to glimpse at the pictured flyer and make a on the fly decision whether you want to read more, or know right then if it will offend you. I’m not delving into religion, as that subject is just as touchy as race AND abortion for alot of people. But the serenity prayer is a beautiful thing.

broyland

Charles, I wonder how man people would watch a baby walk into traffic without warning them of sure DANGER. These flyers are going for the shock value no doubt.

DaveHowell

THERE IS NO CAUSE FOR ALARM PEOPLE: Princeton Theological Seminary is not a real seminary if there are women students or women professors, which there are, as you can see from the article. I have read the Bible. Christianity is not what your warm fuzzy feelings guide you to, fa&&ots, rather, Christianity is what the Bible says it is, FYI, Dr. Quinn medicine kun+. Keep Somalian piracy SAFE and LEGAL! Keep carjacking SAFE and LEGAL! Keep home burglary SAFE andLEGAL, ’cause it will happen no matter what you do. DO NOT DRIVE DUMPING OF INDUTRIAL POLLUTANTS UNDERGROUND! Then the pollutor will not tell you, and you’ find out about it when much more damage has been done. KEEP DUMPING OF TOXIC INDUSTRIAL POLLUTANTS IN PUBLIC WATERWAYS SAFE AND LEGAL, because it’s going to happen anyway. History (or herstory)tells us this much.

time out

spoken like a true aggressive AGNOSTIC> Or Muslim in sheeps clothing,
Ronald Lemley

Dave-Your reaching here and your analogies are completely lame and offensive, especially considering that the people who are generally ravenously anti-abortion are the same conservatives who are so keen on deregulating the heavy polluters..
Were things really so much better when abortions were illegal or did they cause a lot of women to go to unhegenic and dangerous places?

Bronx Bengal

CBS is so desperate for an “exclusive” story that they advertised this bit heavily in teasers all night — “Tune in at 11 for RACISM IN THE IVY LEAGUE”… and then found out that this was at Princeton Theological Seminary, which has nothing to do with Princeton University. Oops! Quick, I need a rewrite!
DaveHowell

You know, bribery of public officials is always going to happen. People somehow have this nebulous notion that by making bribery of public officials illegal, that bribery of public officials will cease. However, on matters from zoning laws to awarding of government contracts, bribing of public officials will always take place. Why drive it underground? Impeachments, jail time, loss of office, fines… in short the destruction of a career, family, and other elements of status and lifestyle when a public official gets caught accepting a bribe. Keep bribery of public officals SAFE and LEGAL. Oh, and then the same people who want to make it illegal because a public official took a $3,000 bribe for example have to pay $30,000 per year for that official to stay in prison. Makes no sense! Keep bribery of public officials SAFE and LEGAL.
DaveHowell

Drunk drivers already have a tremendous sensory burden when they are drunk. Since drunk driving has been made more undesirable, mostly through the police/courts, drunk drivers have to pay more attention to where the police are at this intersection or that intersection as they cannot afford to get caught. This is not good, because the drunk driver does not pay attention to actual driving conditions as much. Listen, drunk driving is always going to happen; you and I are not going to stop it! So why make the situation worse? Keep drunk driving SAFE and LEGAL.

Ronald Lemley

Now you’re really out there.
Don’t you know that we liberals don’t drink?
We smoke pot, you know that. Of course the really hard cases like myself, do neither but we also don’t drive.

DaveHowell

You know, arsonists make so many mistakes when committing arson: they do not inform tenants that the the structure that they’re occupying about to be engulfed in flames, or the arsonists will not pay attention to what they’re doing because of the fear of getting caught by the police. Arson, though, as we all know, is always going to happen. Keep arson safe and legal! No more unsafe arson! You cannot stop arson, so why make it more dangerous by keeping it illegal?

Ronald Lemley

Dave- The obvious difference here is that NONE of the things that you are mentioning in your lame attempt at irony, have ever been legal, so there is no before and after sense of consequesnces versus lack there of.
We do know what it was like when abortion was illegal, and it was not better unless you think that all of those women don’t count and that their safety is inconsequential.

DaveHOwell

Rape is so much more dangerous when it’s illegal. Keep rape safe and legal! Why make the rapists fear getting caught? Then they many times hurt/threaten/kill their victims. Rape is going to happen no matter what… you know it and I know it. Let’s make rape safe for rapists and rapists’ victims.
DaveHowell

Armed robbery also should be legal, because when it’s illegal, back-alley robbers hurt their victims with much greater frequency because they”re afraid to get caught. Keep armed robbery safe and legal!
Jay

Ya, ban abortions so the resulting babies can be allowed to starve or die from lack of medical attention.

How about we sterilize Christians
Ronald Lemley

I am against war, which someow seems to be okay in the conservative book because it implies some sense of false nobility and protection against a non existant enemy.
How can you be for war and against abortion? Explain this to me since war so often targets mass numbers of civilians including children.It also doesn’t make sense that conservatives consistantly vote against education and health care.
In realty, no one likes abortion, but making a law against it has not worked in the past and only serves to make it more dangerous.

Ryan

A bit off topic and you have just lumped everyone who disagrees with you into ‘conservatives’ and assume they think the same. Questioning why we have racial disparity in abortions does not mean you are a conservative, or you are for war, or you vote against education bills (obviously any bill that spends money on education should be voted for unless you are a evil conservative).

I’m against war and against dictators slaughtering their own populations, and shame on Obama for not being able to think of a better solution like as asking nicely.
WFP

Ronald, the crux of the argument, the point that so-called pro-choice advocates refuse to engage with, is the question of whether a child in the womb is just that, a living human being or something not quite human. In the Roe v Wade decision Harry Blackmun and his concurring justices decided that under the constitution it is not yet a human being with protected rights. Sadly, This is the discussion we really need to have, and it is the discussion that the producers of the fliers at the center of this article is trying to make people have. But it is the discussion Blackmun and company cut off before we could have it.

If you REALLY believe that the child in the womb is just that, and taking its life is wrong, then it seems to me we should support laws that outlaw it even if such laws are regularly flouted. After all, murders occur every day, yet we still have laws against murder.

Ronald Lemley

Yes, good point yet you are ignoring the fact that a Supreme Court decision has already been made which supports a woman’s right to choose.
In the final analysis you are quite right.That is the crux of the argument and its one of those chicken and eggg arguments that will go on forever.
The whole thing is meaningless in the light of the fact that we women will continue to do this thing.if itb is against the law or not and we must be ready for that.Realisticly, are we planning to be literally minded about and condemn them to death for mudering their own fetus? That’s where the whole thing breaks down.
The strict anti-abortionists seem to be in denial about the idea that the fetus is also part of the person that it is attached to.That part of the argument seems male centered because it denies the mothers role to a great extent.
In any case you do have to agree that it is not illegal in many places since Roe V Wade has not been completely turned over.
WFP

“…you are ignoring the fact that a Supreme Court decision has already been made which supports a woman’s right to choose.”

No, I am not ignoring that fact. However, what I am saying is that just because the Supreme Court has ruled so does not make it right, even though it may be legal. What I am saying is that the SC got it wrong in a big (and tragic) way. In the Dred Scott decision Roger Taney and company similarly ruled that Africans were not human beings with constitutionally protected rights. Rather, they were the property of their owners, who could take them wherever they wanted and do with them as they wished.　Because the SC said it was legal, and slaver owners were not likely to give up their constitutional property rights, does that mean slavery opponents should have just throw up their hands about it?

“The strict anti-abortionists seem to be in denial about the idea that the fetus is also part of the person that it is attached to”

It seems to me that here you are taking the position that a fetus is not REALLY an individual human being, but rather someone’s appendage. More to the point, anti-abortion/pro-life people are not “in denial” about anything: they are emphatically saying the a fetus is NOT someone’s appendage but a person temporarily dependent on someone else for sustenance.

In the end what I think is needed is consistent and dignified civil protest; consistent and dignified attempts to educate and engage. Hopefully the message will eventually get through.

Angela

Abortion IS genocide of the HUMAN race! Good for these students who spread the truth! There is no choice for the young women killed in an abortion. The baseline is that ALL humans deserve life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness- including the unborn. Since abortion happens at a rate of every 22 second in the US alone (3600 per day, 1 million + per year), it rightfully fits the definition of genocide. A unique genetic human is created at conception. People need to get sexually responsible and know that sex IS the only way to get pregnant. It should be enjoyed, but NOT at the cost of another human life. Contraceptives yes, slaughter, NO! Oh, and to mix rape into the arguement is intellectually dishonest since only 1% of abortion results from rape. Visit: http://www.AbortionNo.org to learn more.

Ronald Lemley

I almost agree with you except for the fact that my wife was once forced to have an emergency procedure which resulted, in effect, in an abortion.
She was later found to have benign tumors on her uterous and had to have a total hysterectomy. We were never able to have children.
Am I supposed to think that she is evil for having done this because she might not be alive today if it hadn’t been for that procedure.
The other issue is the ugly eploitation of race and the emotions associated with slavery and racial violence that taget a single racial group.That is what makes this thing so unfair and the fact that no one in this thread seems to understand that says a lot about the mind set of the anti-abortion crowd.
The emotion of the issue often makes people do things that aren’t in the best interest everyone concerned.

WFP

Ronald, there is a world of difference between a medically necessary abortion, in which the choice is between one person (i.e. the fetus) dying or two (the fetus and the mother), and an abortion of convenience.
Brandy M Miller

Abortion is a behavior that is evil. It doesn’t make the person who has one evil. The goal of every doctor in the case of trying to save the life of a pregnant woman should be to save them both. Sometimes that isn’t possible and one dies. Sometimes both do. It’s a tragedy, but it’s a much greater tragedy to deliberately kill your own child in order to save your own life.

Jack McGee

Why would Planned Parenhood be involved in this so-called anti-abortion literature? PP LOVES abortion!!!! I think whoever published this literature sent a good message to the black community and tried to be shocking,,,,,,,should have circulated them in places like Harlem, parts of Brooklyn, etc, not this LIBERAL Princeton Seminary,,,,

As far as Shirley Thom,as is concerned, she needs to GROW UP!!!!! She says she was “psychological damgaed” and felt “socially bullied” (whatever that is?) and points out the MEGA-OBVIOUS that “racism still exists”!!!!! Thanks for the tip, “genious”!!!! How can a person who is so overly sensitive, not very bright and see’s life from an extreme viewpoint become a minister/preacher? Well, I guess if crazy Rev Wright ( a true loon) can preach, anyone can!!!!

Stop being so sensitive,,,,,,,the publishers make a good point (I guess without reading any of the text,,,only know what was reported),,,,,

Jack McGee

Just want readers to know thta “Jack McGee” is a pseudonym (fake name),,,,,

broyland

you would’t like me when i’m angry

Wyatt

This is laughable. This article doesn’t even talk about the issue that the flyers are attempting to bring awareness to–it only mentions the college students’ reactions to the flyers and then goes on to label the flyers that are attempting to bring awareness to a perceived form of racism as racist because they use a form of racial imagery to make a point. That’s like calling 1960s freedom fighters racist for using pictures of a disfigured Emit Till to bring awareness to Jim Crow Era violence. Ridiculous.

Jack McGee (psuedonym)

Good point!

mike

yea , tell me about, killing babies is ”not appalling” , only reading about it , so much for the liberal media being non bias, I guess they figure the more dead black babies the better, wake up afro america, you cant suceed if you kill off your own race, have babies and live !!

Jack McGee (pseudonym)

Agreed!

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